MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "'When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The good news: Traffic nearly doubled in the last half of last year. The bad news: MySpace is being criticized for exposing children to risqué content and sexual predators. In response, 'News Corp. plans to appoint a "safety czar" to oversee the site, launch an education campaign that may include letters to schools and public-service announcements to encourage children not to reveal their contact information."

Comments

Shoot.

[grub]

I guess it's back to trenchcoats, candy, and schoolyards for me.

Re:MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users

[hunterx11]

Step 5 really is ???, because I have no idea how they're going to profit after they kick out all of their users with steps 1-4.

Re:responsible design

[PFI_Optix]

Reminds me of when a popular forum meme got hotlinked off the creator's server a while back. The myspace kiddies posted it and posted it and posted it, and he let it go for a week...then replaced it with a random image grab from a directory full of goatse-esque images.

Suddenly myspace was flooded with them, mass bannings occurred, and we all had a great laugh.

Myspace needs to get their own image hosting that automatically parses hotlinks and caches them on the server...it would save their idi...umm...novice users a lot of grief.

What will he prevent?

[Milio]

So if the Drug Czar works to prevent drug use, and the Terrorism Czar works to prevent terrorism, what does the Safety Czar work to prevent?